Name: Dig A Hole
Duration: P00H02M47S
Description: This was originally written drunkenly and improvisationally in a dive bar basement. Lyrically, the song is about how we can’t be sure if there’s anything after the life we have now unless we give our loved ones good (or bad) memories to think and talk about.

Dig A Hole

by Swamp Eyes

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This was originally written drunkenly and improvisationally in a dive bar basement. Lyrically, the song is about how we can’t be sure if there’s anything after the life we have now unless we give our loved ones good (or bad) memories to think and talk about.

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Dig a hole for the dreamer
Stomp the Reaper's shovel down
Dig a hole for the dreamer
Hungry soul meets hungry ground
As the lungs embrace the soil
Once they tire from the toil
Let his silent future bellow
Through the town

Dig a hole for the sinner
Let the rainfall wash him in
Dig a hole for the sinner
Careless grave for careless skin
As the lungs embrace the soil
Once they tire from the toil
Hear his silent future drowning out the sin

Mother Earth will chew the gristle
Of the good, the bad, the gone
Through fallen trees the wind still whistles
Darkness shudders at the dawn
Every beauty starts in shadow
Every flower from the seed
Now they've started
Digging holes for you and me

When we make our final fall
And hope our time they still recall
The bones in the garden tell it all
The bones in the garden tell it all

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released November 18, 2022

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Swamp Eyes Evansville, Indiana

Swamp Eyes is an experimental folk project that offers the listener a deep-dive into a stressful, binary world of haunting fingerstyle guitar and spastic blasts of chaos that somehow satisfyingly coexist.

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